cackle

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cack·le1 /ˈkækəl/ verb [intransitive]  1. LAUGHto laugh in a loud unpleasant way, making short high sounds 咯咯地笑► see thesaurus at laugh2. HBBSOUNDwhen a chicken cackles, it makes a loud high sound 〔鸡〕咯咯叫→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

cackle• "Oh we've got him now!" I cackled, dancing round the room.• She is apt to cackle evilly.• In telling it, he cackled like a corncrake and waved his arms about.• When I said this, he started cackling like a madman.• He kept laughing, cackling, making wild, insane remarks.• A police car radio cackled raucously.• Mad machines gibbered, cackled, screeched insanely and blasted each other with sudden bursts of machine gun fire.• She begins cackling, smacking her lips, like a child thinking of a turkey dinner.• The hens clambered in, cackling with delight and greed.cackle2 noun [countable]  1. a loud high sound that a chicken makes 〔鸡的〕咯咯叫 → cluck2. LAUGHa short high unpleasant laugh 咯咯的笑声

Examples from the Corpus

cackle• There was a cackle from the old lady. "I know what you're after."• And finally, there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle.• How would you put his cackle in print or produce that grin with parentheses and colons?• loud cackles of amusement• Nor, it must be said, a hoot, chuckle, chortle, crow or cackle.• Spider let out a weird high-pitched cackle that scared Miguel.• In his classes, he subjected students to the cackles of mechanical laugh boxes to test their reactions.Origin cackle1 (1100-1200) From the sound

cack·le1 verbcackle2 nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus laugh making unpleasant way, loud to a in

cackle

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cack‧le¹ /ˈkækəl/ verb [intransitive]1. to laugh in a loud unpleasant way, making short high sounds
2. when a chicken cackles, it makes a loud high sound
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ laugh to make sounds with your voice and move your face, because you think that something is funny: He looked so funny that we couldn’t stop laughing.
   ▪ giggle to laugh quickly in a high voice, especially in a slightly silly way, or because you are nervous or embarrassed: A group of teenage girls were giggling in a corner. | She tends to giggle when she meets new people.
   ▪ chuckle to laugh quietly, especially because you are thinking about or reading something funny: He was chuckling to himself over an article in the paper. | ‘We used to get up to all kinds of mischief.’ She chuckled at the memory.
   ▪ snigger British English, snicker American English to laugh quietly in an unkind or unpleasant way, for example when someone is hurt or embarrassed: Billy stood up and started to sing, and one or two people sniggered.
   ▪ titter to laugh quietly in a high voice, especially about something that is rude or about sex, or is embarrassing for someone: As a nation we love to titter over politicians’ sex scandals. | schoolboys tittering over a magazine
   ▪ roar with laughter to laugh very loudly, especially with a deep voice: I could hear my father roaring with laughter at something on TV.
   ▪ shriek with laughter to laugh very loudly, especially with a high voice: Patsy chased him down the stairs, shrieking with laughter.
   ▪ howl with laughter to laugh very loudly – used especially about a group of people laughing together: His plays have made audiences howl with laughter.
   ▪ in stitches laughing so much that you cannot stop: It was such a funny film – it had us all in stitches.
   ▪ guffaw /ɡəˈfɔː $ -ˈfɒː/ to laugh very loudly and without trying to stop yourself: The audience guffawed at his nonstop jokes.
   ▪ cackle to laugh loudly in an unpleasant way: The old woman cackled at the trouble she was causing.

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cackle² noun [countable]
1. a loud high sound that a chicken makes ⇨ cluck
2. a short high unpleasant laugh